IN CENTRAL CHINA.
INDESCRIBABLE DEVASTATION. MISSION PARTY’S REPORT. Shanghai, Aug. 8. A group of missionaries, mostly American Catholic Fathers and Sisters, arraived her after four mouths’ arduous trek on mules and sedan chairs in the wildest part of Central China, following the exodus from Kweichow. Two Sisters died from exhaustion en route. The party reports indescribable devastation and ravages oy soldiers and bandits, with famine everywhere. Complete towns were burned by bandits, the inhabitants fleeing to all parts of’the country, where they are starving. Missions were burned and looted and travellers held up by bandits and stripped of valuable and belongings. The party witnessed the looting of the mission at Shenchowfu, Chinese students at the political bureau auctioning mission property in the streets. This was followed by the burning of a mission school. They declare mission work in the Kweichow province is cmplctely runed. —(A. nd N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 10 August 1927, Page 6
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